PVF brings more high-quality live events to broadcast and digital audiences with production, real-time customisation and distribution services on LTN’s monitored, managed network.
Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF) and LTN have announced a partnership aiming to enhance the league's live video production and expand distribution across linear broadcast and streaming services in 2025. Following its successful inaugural season in 2024, with almost 400,000 fans in attendance and millions of online viewers, PVF has expanded its live production and distribution services to reach audiences via broadcast networks and digital platforms.
Pro Volleyball Federation is a relatively new women's professional indoor volleyball league, focussed on maintaining standards and promoting their sport in the US. After officially launching in 2024 with broadcast coverage on CBS Sports Network, FOX Sports and Roku, and YouTube viewing figures close to 4 million, PVF’s 2025 season opened on 9 January, bringing live coverage from San Diego Mojo’s match against the Orlando Valkyries to Fox Sports 2 audiences.
Expanded Distribution
PVF has increased its broadcast distribution by 350% this season from a year ago, deploying a new portfolio of live video production, real-time customisation and intelligent IP distribution services to deliver all 45 linear broadcast matches and 70 live digital events. The new infrastructure, which comes from LTN, supports delivery through subscription-based and ad-supported viewing models, and brings the potential for greater scale, efficiency and monetisation than was achieved last year.
Jen Spicher, CEO, Pro Volleyball Federation said. “LTN’s services, infrastructure and live video production expertise help us to scale our sports activities and reach new audiences. We’ve lifted our production quality, revenue potential and efficiency and gained the flexibility we need as a nimble organisation.”
LTN is supplying PVF with on-site and remote live video production services supported by IP video transmission. A centralised nine-camera production operation is managed from LTN’s production facility and technical operations centre (TOC) in Kansas City. LTN handles each element of a complete sports production from intelligent signal ingest, custom graphics, audio mixing, video switching, replay and on-site announcer integration, preparing and delivering televised events for major national broadcast and global streaming partners via the LTN network.
Modular Services on the LTN Network
LTN’s large range of services are grouped together in modules, all based on the global LTN Network. For instance, the LTN Flex service uses the Network for secure, low-latency video transport of the camera feeds back to the central production facility, with continuous monitoring.
LTN’s staff at this facility, which serves as a hub, includes directors, technical directors, graphic artists and sound engineers who coordinate and prepare the production elements, allocating equipment to assure on-time arrival and delivery of LTN’s transmission. The team also integrates all aspects of the production – from graphics to advertising insertion.
LTN Direct is a mobile production service that handles logistics, crewing and project management, including full-HD outside broadcast vehicles with production team
LTN Wave IP distribution, with almost unlimited scalability, operates on a multicast backbone of protocols engineered for dynamic multicarrier routing and rapid error recovery. Wave is also useful in organisations that are transitioning from satellite to IP – its quality, reliability and availability are similar to satellite, but with the flexibility, scalability and visibility of IP.
On LTN's network, Wave monitors and automatically tracks each element of the live video transmission path including the signal, equipment and data. LTN broadcast and network engineers, and the staff at the technical operations centre, continuously supervise the flows, device troubleshooting and configuration settings. Its point-to-multipoint distribution and wide scalability helps to increase monetisation opportunities.
Digital Platforms
Through the OU (occasional-use) Transport service, PVF has access to IP-powered transmission that delivers broadcast-quality content exactly, and only, when they need it. The service is used for repeatable transmissions with customisable frequency, delivered on the monitored LTN Network. It also adds the opportunity to diversify their revenue at scale by targeting more ads to specialised audiences through LTN’s network of locations, including public clouds.
Further to scale, alongside the primary live event feeds for broadcast partners CBS, FOX Sports and Roku, PVF’s partnership with LTN includes Arc live event versioning service, which creates versions of live event feeds to meet the specific formatting, audio and monetisation requirements of various digital platforms.
Arc handles detailed customisation such as audio mixing with natural sound, remote announcer integration, scorebug graphics, watermarks and video slating at critical moments. In this case it was managing platform-tailored distribution and extremely wide audience reach via YouTube. ltnglobal.com
